momohatt / hw7

Homework 7

1. Fork a copy for your changes
2. Clone it to your local workstation
3. Create a new project to host your AI in https://console.cloud.google.com
4. Run gcloud init and select that new project.
5. gcloud app deploy python/ or gcloud app deploy go/ to deploy your app.
6. Add the appspot address to the "Reversi Players" sheet
7. Modify the way a move is picked
8. re-deploy the app
9. repeat steps 7 and 8 until you have a very clever AI :)
10. eventually push your awesome clever AI to github.
    • If you want to keep it secret until Thursday night, that's fine.
11. email step17 with your github repository link.

Using reflector.go

You can use this "reflector" program to make a locally running dev_appserver instance act like a human player (i.e. you don't have to deploy the whole app to have it run a game).

To run it:

• download and install Go if you don't have it already.
• Start a new game on https://step-reversi.appspot.com with a "Human (or Local bot)" selected as one of the players
• copy the URL of that browser tab showing that game (i.e. a URL that looks like "https://step-reversi.appspot.com/view?gamekey=fOoBaR")
• type go run reflector.go "https://step-reversi.appspot.com/view?gamekey=fOoBaR"
  • (but pasting your actual viewer URL there -- fOoBaR is not a real game ;)